Challenges: Questions of bimetallism backing the currency haunted William McKinley during his first term. In the Spanish-American War of 1898, McKinley was a forceful and effective commander-in-chief ...

This book presents a history of Western monetary systems and explains why ... "Any historian of monetary standards needs not only to read Bimetallism: An Economic and Historical Analysis but also to ...

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